The country requests "big brokerage" roundtable conference, major electric power

Regarding management rebuilding of TEPCO and countermeasures against the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident at the Ministry of Economic Affairs' TEPCO Reform · 1st F Problem Committee "(Tokyo Electric Committee) which summarized the recommendations on December 20 last year, the government reorganized Responding to the opinion that it should play "catalyst" role. TEPCO accepts the recommendations and plans to formulate new business restructuring measures from this month onwards, and the roundtable conference is expected to be established before and after that. To the recommendation of the TEPCO, as a management efficiency improvement measure covering the processing cost of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, which is expanding from 11 trillion yen, which is assumed from the previous 11 trillion yen to 21.5 trillion yen, TEPCO 's power transmission and distribution and nuclear power plants, We established a "joint venture" at an early date and proposed a proposal to promote reorganization and integration. I am also referring to plans to move the thermal power generation business to a jointly-funded company "JERA (Jera)" with Chubu Electric Power. In response to the recommendations, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is considering plans to publicly invite TEPCO's business partners. However, there is concern that major electric power is "being forced to process nuclear power plants' accidents" (executive), it is cautious. The idea of ​​the round table was raised as a breakthrough measure. TEPCO's "I'd like to reorganize nationwide, I'd like to have an opportunity to meet more than discussions with individual companies" (executive) also meets the intention. In the electric power industry, while domestic electric power demand stagnates due to energy saving and a declining birthrate, we are facing environmental changes where demand trends continue overseas. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast, the electricity consumption in Japan is 0.95 trillion kilowatt-hour in 2014 slightly increased to 0.98 trillion kilowatt-hours in 30 years, while the whole world is 19.8 It grows from trillion kilowatt-hours to 27.9 trillion kilowatt-hours. Within the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, through discussions at the Roundtable, there is a desire to increase the momentum of overseas expansion by business reinforced by restructuring. However, there is a possibility that criticism of "rebuilding government reform" unwilling to the industry may come out, and therefore policy to concretize the concept carefully as "fundamental to first establish contact points between civilians and leave it afterwards" (executive) It is. [Words] Recommendations of the TEPCO Committee The TEPCO Committee of experts established by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced the proposal on disposal of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant incident and TEPCO reconstruction on 20th December 2016. The accident processing expenses have doubled to 21.5 trillion yen from the conventional assumption, and TEPCO estimates that the funds to be drawn up is 16 trillion yen. The decommissioning furnace and reparations are "Fukushima Project", and TEPCO has positioned it to do jointly with the country. To encourage TEPCO 's management efficiency, we urged TEPCO to reorganize and consolidate power transmission and distribution, nuclear power plant business, and encouraged overseas deployment where demand could be expected. It also includes improving profitability on the assumption that the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant will be restarted.